There are four documentaries about the West Memphis Three (three Paradise Lost films and the new West of Memphis) and The Devil's Knot, a dramatic re-telling of the trio's story in development with Atom Egoyan set to direct. Now there is one more film about to go into development. Damien Echols, the young man convicted…
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The West Memphis Three -- Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr., and Damien Echols -- may be free, but their story isn't over. Driven to enter guilty pleas and accept 'time served' sentences in order to return to the free world, the men are saddled with felony records for crimes that very few believe were ever…
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Last week saw the dramatic end to the story of Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr., aka the West Memphis Three. The trio were the subject of Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's documentary Paradise Lost in 1996. That film told of how the three young men had been tried and convicted for the…
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